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OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
Kind of an old article but worth reading: Facebook and Twitter don't censor conservatives. They hire and promote them. Republicans used a Senate hearing to complain that social media doesn't do enough for them. The problem is conservatives don't want to play by any rules Yes, Joel Kaplan is still a VP of content moderation at "Meta." -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
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False premise -- they are deciding what is and isn't disinformation, and in their "even-handed" attempt to curb what they have decided is disinformation, they are muting solid new sources as well as wingnuts because the wingnuts demand "fair play." Facebook can't just take down Q and Nazi sources without those bitches whining about how the commies get to keep theirs, so it's buh-bye to the likes of Mother Jones, the Nation, and Socialist Worker's Daily, as if those were the equivalents of Der Sturmer and the Comet Pizza Watchman. And items critical of Facebook, for example, are disinformation to them. They have acquired too much power to fast over a vital sector they have no business making editorial decisions in whatsoever. I guess what I am arguing for is there needs to be a check to balance them, a board of journalistic pros who advises them on who to mute and deplatform and who not to. Or at the very least they need an Ombudsman to explain why they are treating Mother Jones like a hate group. Or why they have decided its okay to wish death on Russian soldiers. (This came a week after I was suspended three days for saying Russians were weird.) Y'all are so fixated on the de jure element of 1-A. The de facto part is what matters in practice, and practice, we have allowed a brand-new tier of censors to control what we get to to read and see. Censorship begins within each writer. There are many, many times a writer doesn't even pitch a story he / she knows to be true and important, but that their editor would never let them go for it -- see, the entire business desk at the Houston Chronicle prior to the fall of Enron. They rah-rahed that company right over the brink to oblivion, but one of them, Cragg Hines, later claimed that they knew all along it was a bogus outfit. "We didn't want to be the ones who started the run on the bank," was his lame excuse, verbatim, but I understand. Nobody in Houston was doing that story; I was in the room when two investigative reporters were shot down pitching examining why Jeff Skilling really stepped down. We were given no public, staffwide explanation as to why that was not worthy of exploration beyond taking ol' Jeffy at his word that he felt bad about neglecting his family. Maybe it's too expensive to investigate via man-hours. Increasingly the cash-strapped media has become too leery of even frivolous lawsuits to take on certain subjects who can just shut them down even if they are guilty of what the story would or does allege. Next, the editor has to decide if the story is one her bosses would go for. Does it offend their primary advertisers? (Yeah yeah this is not supposed to matter but it does.) A personal friend of someone above the editor's pay grade? Note: none of this has fuck all to do with Congress and their laws. So then you get your report out their and if it is controversial enough your afflicted power will come at you with a PR counter-attack you can't match. And if you think these flacks don't know how to manipulate social media you are naive. And it will only get worse as the social media moguls integrate more fully into the traditional power structure. Tl;dr: It's hard as fuck to get the truth out there as it is, and we don't need a whole new tier of untrained editors squelching what does get out. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
I am the farthest thing from the right on this site, and I do understand it, and it's frightening. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
As with anything from Rupert's empire, I loathe them. I am old-school, a hipster in this regard because I lived in England in the early '90s and saw his practice run there. But it is not just that -- outlets like Mother Jones and the Socialist Workers Daily saw their numbers drop precipitously because Facebook and Twitter et al gave in to pressure from the right to sacrifice leftist outlets to match the hard-right Nazi outlets they were taking down. Facebook is aiming to create a consensus of their own devising. dunno about you, but I don't trust the likes of Mark Zuckerburg to decide what American Consensus is. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
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Over much opposition from the people like me of their day. Yeah, I am sure that was the goal of the heroic Jewish lawyers in the ACLU whose legacy you are now spitting on. Look, Trump took a dookie on press freedoms and relations with the executive and in some instances the mass media has overreacted, and allowed social media to become their enforcement arm. What this does is just funnel the information you do get to see through tinier and tinier apertures. Do we really trust them to treat critical stories about them fairly on their feeds, or can they just not, if not mute, but turn down the volume on them? Like it or not, they shape the news now. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
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You don't think I know that? My son is named after John Henry fucking Faulk. We are entering a terrifying new phase of not just leftist messaging but anything that disturbs the gazillionaires. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
when I become a racist, anti-Semitic, slanderous, steroid gobbling gun nut with a tank and a mansion, the transformation will be complete, mwahaha The difference between Alex and me is he's all hung up in the Second Amendment and I am the First. And the First is being fucked with right now in ways the Founders never could have imagined. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
I've made a living in the media for 20 years. I know this. What's new is that there is a whole new level of gatekeepers with interests at variance to what is ostensibly the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And that is Silicon Valley. I really don't know how hard this is for y'all to grasp. You can say "Quit using it," but that is as practical as telling someone to live without a cellphone. You can say "don't get your news from there," even as you do it yourself, or as if they were content creators themselves. Really -- where do you get your news from if not your curated feeds? Are you going to tell me you log in to several different newspapers / magazines daily without any sort of "guidance" from social media, including this site? You can say you are glad they are controlling disinformation, but wait until the shoe is on the other foot. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
I will say this -- I am glad Trump lost. Immensely relieved. I am just terrified by what the burial of that story revealed about the workings of the media / social media today, ,and you should be to. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
It. Is. Not. Just. Facebook. It is also Twitter and Google with its algorithms. I guess some of y'all believe that the boardrooms of these organizations have not been infiltrated by bright-eyed, bushy tailed little CIA agents by this time. Lol. They've always been in the media and they always will be, and social media as gatekeeper to the media media is even more important. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
So, fine. I quit. But what about the great body of American voters? Also, my own career is tied up in this shit and Facebook directly fucks with my money. I have a mostly non-controversial Substack page and when I link my stories through those fucks they mute them. I can post identical content as a Facebook posts (dozens of likes, hundreds of comments) or as my own link (maybe ten likes and comments.) -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
Who says I do. I am a man of discernment and I get my news from Shaggy. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
Um, no, not if you knock down that fucking straw man of yours. Social media is selectively boosting and sinking certain stories. That is what this controversy is about and it should alarm you. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
So the "experts" at Facebook, Twitter and Google get to decide what is disinformation? -
Some of y'all are just bound and determined to turn this into WW3. And even with NATO hardware, and the fact they are essentially a Third World country, the Belarussians hate the Poles enough to ensure another bloodbath.
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OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
It's not the media, it's the media being muzzled by a new layer of censors in Twitter and Facebook. Facebook, Google and Twitter mute or turn down news they don't like or that harms them. Just the other day I posted how Facebook now says it's okay to kill Russians on their platform. I have 3500 Facebook "friends" and I can pretty much fart on there and get dozens of responses. (It's a professional thing; I have to do it.) I got exactly one response to that post. One. It's hard enough to get a controversial story into print just from within your own office, and now we've added a whole tier of gatekeepers with no obligation to journalistic ethics or anything else other than their bottom line. This can and will be weaponized against the Blue Team, too. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
Some grandfatherly advice https://youtu.be/90oh_Yi_x4k -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
I knew Jose Altuve was gonna take it badly when the Astros lost Correa but not that badly. -
OK, Laptop was real. MSM corruption
MaybeACoordinator replied to Passive Aggressive Coach's topic in Cloak Room
I think we need a whole new set of laws to govern this stuff. Either that or a DoJ willing to enforce those already on the books, because this is only going to get worse. Somebody way up thread said Joe got no material benefit from Hunter's seat on Burisma's board. Come on -- they saw to it that even with his truly impressive partying, he wouldn't have to be calling dad from Vegas at 5 AM for bail money and a lawyer or asking for "loan" for the foreseeable future. In some not inconsiderable way that makes Joe beholden to Burisma. It's more subtle than a straight pay-off but not much. Influence peddling -- it's real, y'all. -
They drink a shit-ton of tea...Sugar, but never milk: they prefer lemon in hot tea.
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Two days in a row with a full line up of dudes I've never heard of -- an entirely different set. I don't keep up with the minors like I used to but I am still a little surprised.
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This. This talk of "windows" is seeming less and less applicable, esp with our Cuban signings and minor league development program. We are excelling at making major leaguers out of unheralded prospects. We are over that draft pick hump. And is there any reason there might not be a Beltran / Big Unit level rental at the deadline this year? Yeah, this reeks of bullshit. What would be the point?
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I hope and pray this is not a jinx, but this is the least shit-showy CR thread in quite awhile. Carry on, gentleman and lady. (Unless there is more than one.)
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He is not Hitler if only because he is incapable of being Hitler. He doesn't have the resources -- human or natural -- to fight against NATO. To me, nationalistic fervor within Russia is immaterial if they don't have the clout to match. He does not have superior tanks or airplanes. He has not developed a new set of tactics on the order of the blitzkrieg. In fact, he is basically still using cumbersome blitzkrieg tactics now, and is paying the consequences. With NATO air support, their levels of attrition would approach that of the Krauts at Stalingrad or the Iraqis on the highway of death. (This argument that Ukraine is just a speed bump to empire reminds me more and more of how Saddam was allegedly going to blaze through Kuwait and take down Saudi.) I did not mean to imply he has the lost the war. It does seem to me like a Pyrrhic victory, in that they have been exposed as a paper tiger. He will win this fight but the underdog caught him under the chin and put him on the canvas for a three-count.
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I am speaking in the moment of the facts on the ground and you are speaking of some grand invasion that is about as likely as a Detroit Lions Super Bowl win. We are much, much closer to nuclear war than we are to Putin's army marching on Warsaw. Right now he is the bully who got his ass kicked. Great. High fives all around. That all changes when the little pussy goes home and gets his AK out of the closet, returns to the scene, and opens fire. Just as guns are a great equalizer, so are nukes. I mean, if he really wanted to push this to the limit, and he does invade NATO, we would be obligated to respond in kind. There is no way he wins that war aside from the Charlie Sheen "winning" of planetary nuclear winter. He is gambling that he can make a Belarussia out of Ukraine and we won't go to the mat for that. And we shouldn't. And we can all step back from the brink and one day perhaps a chisel out a truly neutral Ukraine. Fuck, American Indians were able to do this shit. I remember reading that the longest word in the history of languages was some Massachusetts Indigenous word designating a lake that divided two warring tribes. The name meant "you fish on your side, we fish on our side, nobody fishes in the middle." Although in Ukraine's case, I'd advise letting everybody fish in the middle. Make it the entrepot between east and west for trade and banking. Make it too valuable for either side to want to flatten. Just disarm it as near as possible and let the money flow.
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